Taking New Orleans Forces Change Plans In Civil War
From Pittsburg Landing the Cincinnati Gazette special notes New Orleans capture may force Beauregard near Corinth or toward Mobile. Questions arise on his retreat path and supply lines. Reports of rebel reinforcements, new medical director Dr. McDougal, and successors to Prentiss and Smith.
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Beauregard
Corinth
Mobile
Alabama
Smith
The
Cincinnati Gazette
Halleck
Memphis
Grand Junction
Mitchell
Tombigbee
Black Warrior
Seaboard
Crump's Landing
Lew. Wallace
Savannah
Fekeck
Gen. Halleck
Hospital Frauds at Lebanon and Dr Daniels But Not Arrested
Special correspondence from Tennessee reports wholesale frauds in hospital stores at Lebanon Kentucky. Dr Daniels of Toledo, once surgeon of the 14th Ohio, is said to be connected, but he denies charges and requests a board of investigation via Gen Buell. Witnesses praise his service and promotions, urging a fair review.
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Smith
Missouri
Otto
Associated Press
Cairo
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Corps D'Armee. Agats
Lebanon
Daniel
Cincinnati Gazette
Eee
Enquirer
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Hine
Toledo
Louisville
Dayton
Gen. Buell
Dr. Daniels
Ohio
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Carrick’s Ford
Carrick’s ‘Ord
Agate
Halleck
Thomas
Army of the Ohio
Army of Tennessee
Buell
Grant
McClernand
Lew Wallace
Grand Army
Gen. Hamilton
Pope
West Tennessee
Department
Eps
George W. Rogers
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Fort Donelson
Fort Henry
Daniel Reasoner
Mound City
ROM GEN MITCHELLS DIVISION RETREATS IN ALABAMA
Correspondence from Decatur, April 28, reports a withdrawal from the Charleston and Memphis Railroad segment between Tusculation and Decatur, with the Tennessee River bridge burned at Decatur. No major battles occurred, only minor skirmishes as forces pull back strategically.
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Cincinnati Gazette
Decatur
Ala
Charleston & Memphis
Tuscumbia
Tennessee
Alabama
Destruction of Saltpeter Works At Talbott’s Ferry Skirmish
Correspondence from the St Louis Democrat detailing Col McCrellis 4th Iowa forces and Bowen’s battalion actions. Lieut Dickinson Curry and Crabtree led raids on rebel saltpeter works below White River, destroying kilns, sheds, vats, and 10,000 pounds of saltpeter. Lieut Heacock of the 4th Iowa Cavalry died after being shot at Talbotts Ferry. Reenforcements permitted repelling rebels, shells fired from a howitzer, and multiple rebel casualties reported.
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Talbott’s, Ferry
Mes
4Th Iowa Co
Bowen
Dickinson
Lieut
Curry
Lieut Crabtree
Little North Fork
White Ok
East Forsyth
Big Creek
White River
McCrellis
Drummond
Sergeant Smith
Price
McCracken
Mr. Doyle
Mason
Fourth Town
Colon
Colman
Yellville
Fourth
Iowa Cavalry
Talbott
Jacksonport
Mooney’s
Frent Heacock
Chaney
Col
McFall
Crabtree
Mooney
Campaign hopes rise as Yorktown retreat nears Richmond
Washington dispatches report McClellan’s division ready at West Point after Yorktown evacuation. Transports can move twenty thousand more troops to the peninsula, aiming to trap the rebel army and seize Richmond within a week. The French minister warned Richmond that recognition is not forthcoming and urged cessation of hostilities to avoid global economic harm.
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Mr. Kaegry
Jeff
Davis
Tennessee
Fort Pillow
Fort Donelson
Pittsburg Landing
Johnston
South Carolina
Washington
Herald d Oh
Richmond
East
Times’ Dispatch
Franklin
McClellan
West Point
York River
Yorktown
Cary
Dee Peckoning
Wastrxarox
England
France
United States
Recaptured Emily St Pierre Returns to Liverpool
May 6 report from New York recounts the Emily St Pierre, seized by a blockading fleet and turned over to a prize crew bound for Philadelphia, later recaptured by Confederate Captain Wilson. He and a few aboard overpowered the prize crew, returning to Liverpool on the 21st with the captain in charge. A Baltimore merchants letter to a Liverpool firm argues Federal defeat at Yorktown and notes the Merrimac and other ironclads in service, showing not all Baltimore merchants remain loyal.
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Emily St. Pierre
Philadelphia
Wilson
Liverpool
Ieutenant Stone
Steward
Cook
Baltimore
Yorktown
Merrimac
China
Foreign News and Tennessee Cavalry Clash Report
The May 5 dispatches note steamers China Etna Jura arriving, and naval orders to arm and convert wooden vessels into iron plated floating batteries. Montenegrins and Turks clash near Nichoich with heavy casualties on both sides. Nashville reports Dumont’s cavalry rout of Morgan’s forces at Lebanon, with Morgan possibly killed and several officers wounded. Prisoners captured near Pulaski and released. McClellan’s forward movement described with gunboats at West Point and railroad bridge destruction toward Richmond.
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China
Etna
Jura
Wisbeck
Canada
Admiralty
Royal
Niehoich
Tennessee
Morgan
Dumont
Louisville
Nashvillle
Woolford
Smith
Kentucky
Wynkoop
Pennsylvania
Wood
Lebanon
Hazlett
McKinney
Carey
Chambers
Dial
Thomas
Leonard
Ohio
Jenifer
Neal
Mitchell
Kennett
Captan
Twenty-first Ohio
Pulaski
Etn
Nashville
Morganost
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